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    Lola Rosa

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    Maria Rosa Henson was the first Filipino woman to publicly testify about being sexually enslaved by Japanese soldiers during World War 2. She recounted being raped at age 14 by Japanese soldiers when her family fled the invasion of Manila. Two years later, she was captured at a checkpoint and forced to serve as a "comfort woman" for nine months. Despite extreme violence and hardship, she survived and later helped the resistance by warning villagers of Japanese attacks. After the war, she struggled to raise her family but courageously came forward in 1993 to demand compensation from Japan for victims.

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    Lola Rosa

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    Maria Rosa Henson was the first Filipino woman to publicly testify about being sexually enslaved by Japanese soldiers during World War 2. She recounted being raped at age 14 by Japanese soldiers when her family fled the invasion of Manila. Two years later, she was captured at a checkpoint and forced to serve as a "comfort woman" for nine months. Despite extreme violence and hardship, she survived and later helped the resistance by warning villagers of Japanese attacks. After the war, she struggled to raise her family but courageously came forward in 1993 to demand compensation from Japan for victims.

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    Maria Rosa Henson was the first Filipino woman to publicly testify about being sexually enslaved by Japanese soldiers during World War 2. She recounted being raped at age 14 by Japanese soldiers when her family fled the invasion of Manila. Two years later, she was captured at a checkpoint and forced to serve as a "comfort woman" for nine months. Despite extreme violence and hardship, she survived and later helped the resistance by warning villagers of Japanese attacks. After the war, she struggled to raise her family but courageously came forward in 1993 to demand compensation from Japan for victims.

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    Lola Rosa

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    Maria Rosa Henson was the first Filipino woman to publicly testify about being sexually enslaved by Japanese soldiers during World War 2. She recounted being raped at age 14 by Japanese soldiers when her family fled the invasion of Manila. Two years later, she was captured at a checkpoint and forced to serve as a "comfort woman" for nine months. Despite extreme violence and hardship, she survived and later helped the resistance by warning villagers of Japanese attacks. After the war, she struggled to raise her family but courageously came forward in 1993 to demand compensation from Japan for victims.

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    Maria Rosa

    Henson
    (Lola Rosa)
     In1992, The Task Force on Filipino
    Comfort Women went on nationwide
    radio, calling for testimonies on the
    alleged sexual enslavement of
    Filipino women by Japanese soldiers
    during the second World War. One
    came forward, the first to do so. Her
    name was Maria Rosa Luna
    Henson. Then already 65 years
    old, she gave face and form to a
    terrible war crime that until then
    had only been whispered about.
    Born in Pasay City on
    December 05, 1927.
    Her story begins as the
    daughter of the landlord’s
    illiterate mistress, Julia.
    Rosa’s mother, Julia, is the
    eldest of the children who
    began her working life as Don
    Pepe Henson’s housemaid.
     The seeming kindness of the
    landlord to help Julia’s family was
    not without motive.
     When he impregnated Julia, he
    promised to give his name to the
    child if they take her to Pasay to
    give birth.
     Growing up without a father around
    confused Rosa about her background
    which later on was discovered by
    her classmates and teachers.
     When war was declared on
    December 05, 1941, Rosa was 14
    years old.
     Her mother’s family all fled to
    Bulacan to escape the Japanese
    troops landing in Manila.
     While gathering wood, Rosa was
    snatched by three Japanese soldiers
    and raped. She survived the incident
    because a farmer brought her home
    to recover.
     Two years after, an even more
    unfortunate incident happened to Rosa
    while she was passing a Japanese
    checkpoint with members of the guerrilla
    movement. Afraid that the ammunition
    hidden in the sacks of grain would be
    discovered, Rosa silently went to the
    checkpoint guard who by that time waved
    to her companions to proceed. Rosa was
    captured and become a comfort woman
    for nine harrowing months.
     Violence and humiliation were everyday
    occurrences in the garrison for comfort
    women. Not even captivity nor bouts of
    malaria dampened the spirits of Rosa to
    survive, more so to help the resistance
    against the Japanese.
     Overhearing Japanese soldiers planning to
    burnt her town to flush out members and
    supporters of HUKBALAHAP, Rosa risked her
    life to inform a passing villager so when the
    Japanese arrived at the village there was not
    a single soul in the village.
     The officer readily suspected Rosa who was
    in the same room during the planning. She
    was tied and beaten senselessly.
     When the Japanese Imperial Army withdrew
    its troops in the Philippines, Rosa was freed
    from the garrison and only regained
    consciousness after two months.
     Her recovery was as traumatic as her ordeal.
     After a remarkable recovery at the age of 18,
    Rosa met Domingo who later became her
    husband and father to two daughters.
     One day Domingo just disappeared without a
    word. It was not until nearly a year when she
    discovered her husband's location, he had
    joined an armed group fighting the
    government’s army for land redistribution.
     He also had another woman.
    If one were an ordinary mortal, there is
    more probability that you’d loose your
    sanity halfway if you were in Lola Rosa’s
    shoes, or wooden clogs for that matter.
    She started her life painfully, with only
    faith in God and love for her mother in her
    heart.
    She was stripped of her dignity as a
    Japanese comfort woman. She was
    betrayed by her husband who hid under the
    shield of resistance movement.
    She single-handedly raised her family.
    She mourned, she struggled, she survived.
     Coming out in public as a comfort woman
    was a most courageous thing to do. In April
    1993, along with other surviving comfort
    women from the Philippines and other
    countries, she filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo
    District Court demanding compensation from
    the Japanese government. During the visit of
    the Japanese Prime Minister to the
    Philippines in 1994, Tomiichi Murayama
    brought out the idea of a Women’s Centre as
    a form of compensation. Until now, the
    Japanese government insist that
    compensation was already given in the form
    of reparations to the Philippines government
    after World War II.

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